Concentration Camps

A Global History

Alan Kramer (Senior Professor, Senior Professor, University of Hamburg)

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English

Oxford University Press
28 April 2025

General & world history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; The Holocaust; Second World War; Prisoners of war

A global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.

In popular perception concentration camps are synonymous with genocide and Nazi racial extermination. Yet concentration camps were and are a global phenomenon, not restricted to Nazi Germany, used at times even by democracies, with an astonishing range of functions.

Drawing together a wide range of multi-lingual archival research and synthesising a broad secondary literature, Alan Kramer provides here a comprehensive history of concentration camps, charting their first establishment at the beginning of the twentieth century on the colonial periphery, through their most extreme and inhuman instances in the mid-twentieth century, to their continued use today. Concentration camps are shown to be a truly transnational phenomenon that emerged both simultaneously (within and between imperial spheresDLBritain, Spain, the USA, and Germany around 1900), and diachronically (from then to the First World War, the Gulag, and Nazi camps). Such camps existed (and exist) under a variety of regimes, often concomitant with empire-building by revolutionary dictatorships, as sites of genocide, mass murder, and performative violence, but also as central elements of utopian schemes of social and racial transformation. Integrating the perspective of perpetrators and the victims and contextualising them within the historiography of other carceral institutions, the book will reshape the way we think about concentration camps as part of modern civilization, past and present.

By: Alan Kramer (Senior Professor Senior Professor University of Hamburg)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 1.088kg
ISBN: 9780198800620
ISBN 10: 0198800622
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 28 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alan Kramer has published widely on the history of war, beginning with a co-authored book on the phenomenon known as the 'German Atrocities 1914', branching out into the economic, political, social, and cultural history of war, 1900-1945. His next book, Dynamic of Destruction (OUP, 2007) applied a transnational perspective to war in Europe, 1912-23, and inspired a conference in Barcelona and an edited book, Fascist Warfare. Kramer's later work on Italian prisoners of war triggered an interest in the comparative global history of concentration camps, on which he convened several conferences, and the research for which underlies this book.